WENDY SHARPE / INTO THE DARK: Opening Night

Name: WENDY SHARPE / INTO THE DARK: Opening Night
Start: 2026-07-17T18:00:00+1000
End: 2026-07-17T20:00:00+1000
Location: The Lock-Up

Fri, 17 Jul, 6pm - 8pm AEST

The Lock-Up

Newcastle NSW, Australia

The Lock-Up

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Join artist Wendy Sharpe for the opening of Into The Dark, a major site-responsive project by one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Wendy Sharpe, transforming The Lock-Up into a series of immersive environments.

Featuring exciting new commissions, Into The Dark invites audiences to navigate spaces of uncertainty, confronting themes of climate crisis, conflict, and the fragility of truth in a deeply affecting, choice-driven experience.

Doors and bar open 6pm

Image: Wendy Sharpe, 'Self Portrait with Monsters', 2025 (detail), oil and acrylic on linen. Courtesy the artist and King Street Gallery on William. Photography by John Fotiadis.

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THE LOCK-UP / BUILDING WORLDS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND THEIR CREATIVE IMAGINARIES

The Lock-Up is a place of vital encounter between the arts and audiences of today housed within Muloobinba/Newcastle’s original 1861 lock-up on Awabakal and Worimi Country. We support the production, commission, research, residencies and presentation of contemporary multidisciplinary art. We are a space to investigate the social issues of today and the cultural forms of tomorrow through critical, artist-led, multidisciplinary and experimental practice. The Lock-Up firmly believes in artists taking risks.

The Lock-Up is an 1800s police station, reimagined as an independent contemporary art space.

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